On 2/15/07, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Instead of lowering ourself to the lowest denominator let us ask the user to > raise his/her level to a NORMAL standard. If they have to be abnormal then > they can turn on quoting.
John: This isn't the way to try to get dabo accepted into an enterprise. If I'm coming in and want to help the client raise his standards, it helps a lot if I can set the client up with dabo and the AppWizard and It Just Works. Later, we can explain to them that "GROUP" and "DESC" and "SELECT" are bad field names, along with teaching them about normalization, program design and so forth. If a newbie logs on and tries to run the app and it crashes (with, to the user, obscure error messages), the newbie's conclusion is: (1) it's too hard, (2) dabo is buggy or (3) it won't work for me. Many of my clients are self-taught SMBs and the fact that they've made millions of dollars and kept people employed has to be balanced against their ignorance of some best practices. If we start by slapping their wrist, it's the last we'll see of them. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
